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Important Early Hellenistic Gold Ring engraved with a priestess holding an animal skin, offering incense at a thymiaterion Second half of the 4th Century BC Height: 3 cm. (1 3/16 in.) ex: private European collection, before 1970's Published: Antiquarium Ltd.; Women in Ancient Art (New York, 1997) p.15 Comparanda: Willers, Dietrich & Lilian Raselli-Nydegger; Im Glanz der Gotter und Heroen. Meisterwerke Antijer Glyptik aus der Stifyung Leo mertz (Mainz am Rhein, 2003) no.108 Boardman, John; Greek Gems & Finger Rings (London, 1970) no.749, 791, 792